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AWARDS

Our awards recognize the innovative and cutting edge approaches to serving college Â鶹´«Ã½s who experienced foster care.

• 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award
  This unit award recognized the Seita Scholars Program at WMU as a powerful solution to expanding higher education Â鶹´«Ã½ for young people who aged out of foster care. The award included a $100,000 prize. Awarded by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
• 2017 Project Degree Completion Finalist
  This unit award recognized and showcased The Center for Fostering Success for exemplary efforts to improve Â鶹´«Ã½ retention and completion. Award finalists havd key roles at the 2017 Association of Public & Land Grant Universities (APLU) national meeting.
• 2017 UASC Assessment Excellence Unit Award
  This unit award recognized outstanding efforts of the Seita Scholars Program for its systematic collection and use of the results of Â鶹´«Ã½ learning and academic program quality to demonstrate program improvement. Awarded by the University Assessment and Steer Committee, Â鶹´«Ã½, Kalamazoo, MI.
• 2017 Beacon Award
  This unit award recognized Fostering Success Michigan as an organization that strengthens success through partnerships. Awarded by the Michigan College Access Network. Lansing, MI.
• 2014 Youth Thrive Award
  This unit award recognized the Center for Fostering Success as one of 15 programs in the United States that are making a critical difference in the lives of foster care youth. Awarded the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP). Washington, DC.